Well, a rant I thought I would never post...

Rowreach said:
I've given up following all the NI rescues on Facebook because I can't bear all the heart wrenching posts about the various dogs which have been "almost home" for months and even years, which are closely followed by all the restrictions on ownership. Including not rehoming to families with children. Now think about it, families with kids, especially young ones, are more likely to be families with an adult who works part time/is home at least part of the day .....
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exactly- I am on maternity leave and have gained 2 rescues in that time! (from a charity I mentioned earlier who assess everyone individually, not blanket rules)
I will then not be returning to full time work. I will mostly be mucking out horses & the dogs come with me.
Many parents are flexible and part time, especially before school age.

I understand some dogs do not like children and I am always very careful with my 9 month old baby- but there are things like stair gates and play pens for safe containment! GSD rescue actually passed me, despite stating children 7+ only, while they failed my friend who has a 5 year old. But I had previous experience of the breed, she was getting her first dog.

Yay hope the dog is lovely
 
Lévrier;13563723 said:
Of course I now blame Blanche entirely for the fact I have arranged to go and see this girl tomorrow at 1pm..... :D :D :D

http://s3.zetaboards.com/HWAR_Forum/topic/9026185/1/
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How exciting. I will accept my hand in this if you get her and she's a good girl. If,however, she eats your shoes or pukes in your handbag I'm denying any involvement! 😂😂 I saw her on there the other day and did think of you but thought you were set on a whippet.
 
Blanche said:
How exciting. I will accept my hand in this if you get her and she's a good girl. If,however, she eats your shoes or pukes in your handbag I'm denying any involvement! ���� I saw her on there the other day and did think of you but thought you were set on a whippet.
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From their description today I think she will be the sort to do just those sort of things :D I am always a sucker for a pretty rescue hound, so I can cope with her not being a whippet.... :) :)
 
Lévrier;13563723 said:
Of course I now blame Blanche entirely for the fact I have arranged to go and see this girl tomorrow at 1pm..... :D :D :D

http://s3.zetaboards.com/HWAR_Forum/topic/9026185/1/
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She's lovely!

I honestly think rescues need to get their heads out of their arrases if they want to realistically re-home dogs. Whilst I think leaving puppies home alone for hours is pretty awful, I really think offering a great home to an adult home should not be banned due to working owners. It seems that the RSPCA will only re-home to very active retired seniors!
 
Hope it all goes well with this one :)

I have had a few rescues over the years and none of them were temprementally 'desirable', hence I am sure the fact that we did not have a fenced garden, just a fenced in patio area outside the back door was deemed acceptable. In fact one rescue had previously turned us down during an initial phone call because of this, but when we went along in person a few years later a nd picked a dog that had been returned 3 times for continually messing in the house, it was not a problem!

The last time I tried to adopt a JRT x Chi as a retired person with a beautifully secure garden, I was turned down as the dog was small and I may lose it/it would get muddy in the fields at the yard/it would get trampled on by a horse. I gave up and got a terrier puppy from Trade It.
 
cinnamontoast said:
She's lovely!

I honestly think rescues need to get their heads out of their arrases if they want to realistically re-home dogs. Whilst I think leaving puppies home alone for hours is pretty awful, I really think offering a great home to an adult home should not be banned due to working owners. It seems that the RSPCA will only re-home to very active retired seniors!
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i am an active retired senior and wanted a small adult dog, i was not suitable as i couldnt be at home 24/7 so i ended up buying a puppy, its a shame but i was not prepared to lie as i feel my dogs have a very good life and i am sure they would rather be in a comfortable home and being left for a couple of hours rather than being in kennels at the rescue centre without much human contact.
 
Sometimes I wonder if these rescues want to hold on to all their dogs as the more desperate animals they've got the more donations people will give
 
Don't know if you're still looking but I picked up this poor lad last week (I work as a Animal Warden).

Very sad story and been mistreated. The sweetest, loveliest boy ever. Approx 2 yrs old max.

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I find it incredibly sad that so many dogs in rescues appear to have no basic training, housetraining etc. and majority have to be the only dog in the household. I have looked through most of the Dogs Trust websites and the percentage that can live with another dog appears to be tiny. Still looking for the perfect match for my little dog !
 
I have had similar problems but my saving grace is I have a very good friend back up in Surrey who rescues dogs herself and has her own rescue, she had a jack russell for us when we lost our old boy last year and what a lovely little fellow he has turned out to be. I've messaged her so see what she has available for you and shown her this thread Levrier so she may be on here to chat, she's not like most rescues, she has common sense and evaluates each home independently and none of the "ticks all the right boxes" attitude and strict almost impossible rules that some rescues have.
I am surprised that ANY ever house any dog to be honest as there seems to be no flexibility at all, I know they have to be sure about the homes but really ARE too strict and it encourages people go out and buy puppies instead of re homing which is such a shame for the poor dogs in desperate need of a loving, experienced home.
I am an experienced lurcher owner too but still had a battle on my hands when going to previous rescue centres and I work from home so at home most of the time and have a 2 acre field for them to romp about it.
Just read through your later posts to see you may have found one, good luck and if it doesn't work out let us all know.
Oz
 
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Snuffles said:
I find it incredibly sad that so many dogs in rescues appear to have no basic training, housetraining etc. and majority have to be the only dog in the household. I have looked through most of the Dogs Trust websites and the percentage that can live with another dog appears to be tiny. Still looking for the perfect match for my little dog !
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This was the issue we came up with a couple of years ago, very few dogs available who could live with another dog. We ended up getting a puppy.
 
hairycob said:
Cat rescues are as bad. Friend got turned down for a feral cat for her yard which is at the end of a half mile track, surrounded by fields because the horses water troughs were uncovered and posed a drowning risk.
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This is absolutely ludicrous, you couldn't make it up!
 
Well not all rescues are as fussy apparently. Someone from the flats next to me has just got a puppy from the Dogs Trust. 1) Dogs not allowed in these flats, although someone else with the pooing staffie( see post re dog fouling on private alleyway) has still got his. 2)This woman is the most foul mouthed person I have ever met and is known to be violent, subject of regular calls to police for harassment and threatening behaviour from other residents of the flats. Has two very small children. Dog is a jack Russell Puppy. She has also had three dogs before that have fallen out of favour very quickly and been rejected. God help the dog is all I can say.
 
Snuffles said:
Well not all rescues are as fussy apparently. Someone from the flats next to me has just got a puppy from the Dogs Trust. 1) Dogs not allowed in these flats, although someone else with the pooing staffie( see post re dog fouling on private alleyway) has still got his. 2)This woman is the most foul mouthed person I have ever met and is known to be violent, subject of regular calls to police for harassment and threatening behaviour from other residents of the flats. Has two very small children. Dog is a jack Russell Puppy. She has also had three dogs before that have fallen out of favour very quickly and been rejected. God help the dog is all I can say.
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Oh gosh. I do hope puppy is ok. I also hope I can sleep tonight.
 
Snuffles said:
Well not all rescues are as fussy apparently. Someone from the flats next to me has just got a puppy from the Dogs Trust. 1) Dogs not allowed in these flats, although someone else with the pooing staffie( see post re dog fouling on private alleyway) has still got his. 2)This woman is the most foul mouthed person I have ever met and is known to be violent, subject of regular calls to police for harassment and threatening behaviour from other residents of the flats. Has two very small children. Dog is a jack Russell Puppy. She has also had three dogs before that have fallen out of favour very quickly and been rejected. God help the dog is all I can say.
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Have you reported your concerns to the dogs trust?
 
I've been involved in rescue since I was a teenager and have always had rescue animals myself, I also home check for a number of rescues and can absolutely see both sides of the coin.

I think many involved in rescue have been burnt by trusting adoptees to care for animals only to have the animals, returned, neglected or worse despite these people appearing caring and meeting whatever homing criteria, so they adapt their homing criteria to try to prevent this and sometimes it is taken to extreme.

I do however think that each case should be looked at on an individual basis and some rescues do seem to struggle to think outside of the rigid homing requirements box.

As a rescue manager I want a potential home to provide an equal space, diet, amount of enrichment and specialist vet care as the animals in my care currently receive and ideally better if possible, but I also do take into account the benefits of more human interaction and a less stressful environment.

Ironically the only rescue that wouldn't consider me as a suitable owner were the blue cross as I apparently have too many other pets
 
I haven't read the entire thread, but Forever Hounds Trust (formerly known as Greyhound Rescue West of England) re-homes hounds and lurchers to those in FT employment :)

edit: and they are nationwide
 
electric_circus said:
I haven't read the entire thread, but Forever Hounds Trust (formerly known as Greyhound Rescue West of England) re-homes hounds and lurchers to those in FT employment :)

edit: and they are nationwide
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Oh yes my first five rescue hounds were from GRWE :) Last time I adopted one (about 6 years ago) I was told in a truculent tone by my county rehoming officer that "they had to rehome to me even though I worked full time, as I had had a dog from them before"

I volunteered and did fund raising for them for quite a few years, but unfortunately the local (county) politics annoyed me so much I gave up :( Such a shame the charity cannot think of the welfare of the hounds ahead of local squabbles :(
 
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